Dr. Rebel A. Cole is a Professor of Finance and Real Estate in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. Since July 2003, he has been teaching MBA-level courses in financial management, corporate governance and valuation, as well as the capstone finance class for undergraduate finance majors.

Prior to coming to DePaul, Dr. Cole taught at the University of New South Wales in Australia and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. During his career, he has taught finance in six different countries (Australia, Bahrain, China, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S.).

Dr. Cole is a frequent commentator in the financial media, with more than two dozen appearances during the past year.

Since leaving the Board of Governors in 1997, Dr.Cole has served as a special advisor to the Carribbean Technical Assistance Center, the International Monetary Fund, the Middle East Technical Assistance Center, USAid and the World Bank, providing technical assistance to Central Banks in developing countries that include the Bahamas, Cape Verde, China, Ghana, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Palestine, the Philippines, Russia, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Dr. Cole has participated in more than 40 international missions to these countries to assist in the development of stress tests, financial stability indicators, and off-site monitoring systems for commercial banks and other financial institutions. During August 2008 and May 2009, Dr. Cole was a visiting scholar at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, DC.

In early 2009, Dr. Cole drafted an action plan for rescuing the economy from the ongoing housing crisis--the Housing Asset Relief Program. This program would target delinquent residential mortgages with three goals: (1) Keep six million families out of foreclosure and in their homes; (2) recapitalize the banking system by removing delinquent mortgages and home equity lines of credit from bank balance sheets; and (3) stablize the credit markets by eliminating the delinquent mortgages that have toxified mortgage-related securities.

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